As I just signed up for this yesterday, I have no progress to show.
I did create a Category at the Top of my Blog – the drop down will take you to each piece currently in my WIPocalypse rotation. As other pieces are started, a page will be added for it! And each piece will be marked DONE as they are completed!
My original WIPocalypse post can be found here!
Looking forward to making some progress this next month!
I’m going to participate in WIPocalypse this year! It’s a SAL in the stitching community, to works towards getting your WIP pile decreased throughout the year.
I hesitated joining, as my list is not that long really, but was encouraged by Melissa to join, so I did!
I’ll be taking pictures and linking them later today of the current progress on each!
Current WIPS for 2012:
Magnolia Pixie – Mirabilia
Hannah Beeby – Timeless Designs
Mary Wigham
America, Land that we Love
My Lady Quaker
New Starts in 2012:
Moonlit Garden – Blackbird Designs
6 Fat Men – Lizzie Kate
Mirabilia Round Robin (8 rounds) at TWRRB
Letter T – Nora Corbett
LHN Ornie of the Month ornaments (22 total)
You can read more about the 2012 WIPocalypse here.
And here’s the crazy list of participants so far!!
I’ve spent a great deal of time organizing all of my Cross stitch supplies and making lists, etc.
I’m going to spend the time and do the same thing with my scrapbooking supplies. I need to make a list of WIPs there as well, and work to make progress on some of this stuff!
This is my jar of orts (thread scraps) from 2011. It’s kind if fun to look back and see what you stitched through out the year this way.
The last few months of 2011 saw me stitching a ton. I decided early on in the year that I was going to give Cross Stitch for Christmas gifts this year. I had long ago purchased the kits/materials for 3 of the pieces, it was just a matter of me getting them done!
I started stitching in April, and quite quickly finished this piece for my Grandmother: (I must have missed taking a “final” picture, as I sewed buttons between each section in the final piece).
Once that was done, I started stitching on this next piece. I stitched on it for about 10 days in April and May, and then picked it back up in October – finished it on October 29th, 2011. This was for my Parents, and depicts the day they got married, and their initials.
I then did a very quick stitch for my BFF, Melissa. I finished it up in just a few days.
My next finish was for my other BFF, Jill. Her and her family graciously keep my dogs while I’m away on business travel. I will forever be indebted to them! I finished this one in the middle of November.
In November I began a SAL (stitch-a-long) with some girls on Facebook for this next piece. Anyone who knows me, knows I love sunflowers! When I saw this pattern, and found out about the SAL I had to do it! I finished it Thanksgiving weekend.
And, I also finished a couple of ornaments (at least the stitching part), in December. These are part of a set of 24 that I’ve collected for the past 2 years from Little House Needleworks Ornament of the Month series. My goal is to try to finish at least one ornie a month from here on out!
Fa La La:
Pear Tree:
I diligently worked on another piece for most of December, and into the New Year, and finally finished it last night for my first 2012 finish, but as the intended gift-ee reads my blog, and they have yet to receive it for a few more weeks, I can’t post a picture yet. Once it’s been delivered I will post it though! Those who follow me on Facebook will know what I’m talking about!! 
Hi everyone!
Long time no post! Oops!
Traveling is still going … I’m in Illinois right now! I was going to go into Chicago this weekend, as I’ve never been there, but it’s been so hot and humid (heat index of up to 115 degrees) that I decided to forgo that trip and hang out instead.
I spent last weekend with a group of dear friends scrapbooking for the weekend! It was great fun, and Amanda, Nicole and I even took a break Saturday morning to go see the “brunch” showing of Harry Potter. For those of you who are friends with me on Facebook you know my opinion on the HP movies, but I have to say, this last movie was really good! (If you like Rom-Coms I highly recommend Friends With Benefits as well – saw it yesterday it was definitely a cute movie!)
I’m in “organize” mode these days. I’m going through my “stash” and taking a hard line one what I have versus what I NEED. In that vain, I’ll be throwing some stuff up for sale, starting today. For now, I’m starting with about 15 or so stamp sets, but once I get home, I will be adding more to that page! If you’re interested in anything, just let me know!
From my phone again.
Testing from my phone…
The Sisterhood started a new Challenge for May … May Your Way!
I’m a few days late in joining in, but figured it would be a good way to set some goals for myself for the month of May!
So, my May goals:
That’s about it! If you’re interested in reading more about the Challenge, I’ve added a button on the Right to the Sisterhood!
I have a ton of pictures to post, more scrapbook pages to share, and more stuff in general to talk about. I go home tomorrow and will be home for 17 days (w00t), so I’ll be catching up on my Blogging while I’m home! Stay tuned …
Tomorrow is the 1st day of April.
We’re already a 1/4 of the way through 2011. So crazy! The last several months have gone by really fast. I’m sure a lot of that can be attributed to the fact that there have been so many changes in my life – great changes!! I’m happy with my job, I’m happy with where I live, and I love that I live in a town where I have friends close to me again! I forgot how nice it was to be able to get together with someone with NO notice!
Anyway, off track.
A new month. What is it with new months? It’s kinda like Monday’s for me. It always feels like a good time for a new start. And if the first day of a month falls on a Monday? Even better! Of course the next time a new month starts on a Monday isn’t until August. Can’t wait that long. So, I’m going to appease myself with the fact that tomorrow is the first day of a Quarter as well! Totally irrelevant, I know, but it makes me feel better m-kay?
In a previous post I mentioned a “list” – and putting the fact that I make a habit of eating at drive throughs on this “list”. This list is a list of things that I need to work on to make myself healthier and even happier.
My goal for this new month, and new quarter (HA!), is to work on this list and create new habits that stick. The thing is, I have to be realistic about it. I spend more than half of any given month in a Hotel. That’s just a fact of life for me. It means that I’m going to eat a certain amount of foods in a restaurants. I just have to make better choices. It’s possible, I just have to do it. It’s not even about learning to make better choices – I know what I should eat compared to what I shouldn’t eat. I’m an “expert” when it comes to that. But knowing and implementing are two very different things, as most of us know.
Without further ado, I present to you The List:
For now, I think that’s all. I’ll likely add to that list as I go, but for now, it’s a good start.
Till next time!
Well – over the past couple of months I’ve had the opportunity to work on my Hawai’i Scrapbook (you know, from my October 2008 vacation – oops). And guess what? I finally finished it! w00t! To be fair I do still have some journaling to finish on the last 10 or so pages, but I did all my jouraling on the computer for this scrapbook, so I’m just going to have to sit down and take the time to finish all that out!
I realized as I was going through the pictures I took before I left that I thought I had already shared the Luau pictures, but had only actually shared one of those pages. I’ll have to take pictures of those when I get home though!
So for today I’m going to skip to the snorkeling pictures! We went to Hanauma Bay early one morning for snorkeling. Melissa had never been snorkeling before, so we were looking forward to it. While the breeze was up, and it wasn’t the perfect day to snorkel, we still had fun and it was totally worth going to the Preserve!
The pictures aren’t the best, but I was in a hurry! LOL
This is a picture of Melissa! And then some of the fish we saw – it was pretty murky cause of the wind and rougher water.
And finally this last picture when we were leaving. You can see in the top left picture the hill that we walked down to get to the Bay, well, we decided we weren’t walking up it! We took the handy-dandy Tram ride up! Overall it was a great day!
… for a shameless dog picture!
I love Jack and Benny! Sometimes they just crack me the heck up!
Like this … Benny just laying on top of Jack like it’s no big deal! And Jack letting him. And he’s so polite about it with his legs crossed and everything!!
The entire month of March for me has been spent in Canada.
My first trip, earlier this month, was back to the same customer I had been with in December. It was a week of follow up training and went well. Of course it was snowy and cold the whole time I was there, but I suppose I should have expected it right? It’s still winter … in Canada!
As I was driving home one night I saw this little area on the side of the road. I had to take a picture. I’m bummed, because of course the picture doesn’t do it justice, but I thought it was so beautiful. There usually isn’t water in that little valley, but it obviously had melted off and flooded and then froze again! So pretty!
I was home for a little over a week after that trip! I worked on the continuing project of organizing my scrapbook room (I’m getting closer!!) and then on the Saturday before I left we had a get together with a bunch of gals and did a card-making exchange and spent the day scrapping and card making! It was a lot of fun and I’m so glad we did it – can’t wait to do it again!
This brings me up to my current trip! I’m currently in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Surprise, surprise – it’s cold and snowy here! (That’s why the snow is still on the Blog!) It’s actually supposed to stop snowing though in the next couple of days and warm up to like 9-11 degrees Celcius (that’s 48-52 degrees F … rule of thumb to convert C to F, double it and add 30. It’s not exact, but close enough).
Lethbridge has a lot of history here! They are an old coal mining town and at one time it was the biggest city in the Western part of Canada. That’s not something I would have ever guessed with cities like Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver being out this way!
Anyway, here are some pictures from this past week to share!
I flew into Calagary from Vancouver and drove from there down to Lethbridge which is around 2 hours. On that drive you drive through a town called Nanton which is a Historical town. It has a Bomber museum there (I’m not sure if they built the Bombers there, or not) and there are a couple of Bombers mounted outside! It’s pretty cool.
When I arrived at my Hotel there was a bit of a mix up with the reservation, but they fixed it and made it right. When I got to my room I had to laugh at the sign that had my room # on it. Stop? or Welcome? Which is it???
And this is the inside of my room, though it’s pretty dark, it’s still pretty nice. I love the big desk in the middle of the room!!
As I was driving through the little town where our customer is located (about 10 miles west of Lethbridge) I got stuck behind a train track. For like 15 minutes. I was bored, therefore you get this picture for your viewing pleasure!
On our first day at work here, we had lunch at Ric’s Grill in the Lethbridge Water Tower. About 10 years ago they stopped using the Water Tower and decided to convert it (the 2nd link has information on the conversion).
Here’s a picture from our window seating:
And finally, as I was driving around town yesterday after work, I saw the train going over the train trussle through the Valley here. Down below is a bunch of historical sites and trails. If it gets warmer and nicer I want to check it out next Saturday after work!
So far, that’s about it for this trip! Like I said, I want to check out some of the Historical stuff in regards to the mining and such, so hopefully next weekend I’ll have some time for that. Also, I’m driving to Calgary on Sunday to visit my good friend Vikki! I’m really looking forward to that!!
More later!!
Oops – I got a little behind and never posted the rest of my pictures from my February trip to Missouri!
So Jill came out and joined me for the last week of my trip in February! She had never traveled to a customer site away from home before so it was definitely a new experience for her! So much fun!
Work went really well and it was great having Jill there! We were scheduled to fly out on the following Saturday, but not until 6pm at night or something like that. So we had all day to kill. We went and found a local Archivers, which we hadn’t been to before as they aren’t Local where we live. We both ended up buying some things!! Definitely would go back again if I could.
Then we made our way down to downtown St. Louis and The Arch. We didn’t have time to actually go to the top of the Arch in the little Pods, but we got some pictures from the outside, and went down inside and went through the store and museum! I’ve been there before (almost 10 years ago now), but it’s still crazy being there. It’s HUGE.
Anywhere, here are some pictures to share!
And I’ll leave you with one more picture – that does require a little bit of explaination. We were working in Fulton, MO. This town is all about Winston Churchill. They have a restaurant named Sir Winston’s, which serves really good BBQ by the way. This restaurant even has a huge cutout of Winston on their wall. It’s a little odd. Apparently Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech at the University there, as he was given an honorary degree. Interesting stuff! Anyway, this is the front of their menu! I thought it was appropriate!
Today was a travel day for me. I’m in Ontario for the week.
I don’t eat a lot on travel days until AFTER I’ve arrived at my final destination. And I admit, most of those times, dinner involves a drive through. It just does. It’s a habit I need to break … and it’s on “the list”.
I ran through McD’s on my drive to the town I’m staying in this week. As I’m perusing the menu, and I assure it’s quite a bit smaller than it is in the US, I came across something that couldn’t possibly be right. I had to order it. Evil. That’s all I have to say about it. Thankfully it appears to only be a Canadian thing (at least, when I looked at the US McDonalds menu it didn’t appear on it).
For those interested, WWP+ = 8. Yeah, you heard me right. E.V.I.L.
Here are a couple of pictures to share.
Yesterday I took a bit of a drive (ok, ok … I went to Starbucks … what are you gonna do??), and saw this and just had to turn around and take a picture. When I first saw it there were two geese standing on top of it, but when I got back the geese had flown away!
And from today, when I drove over to St. Louis to pick Jill up, I looked down and saw this:
I actually saw 75 degrees at one point, but couldn’t get a picture of it! It’s February people! When I got here 10 days ago there was 18 inches of snow on the ground! It’s completely gone! Crazy-ass weather here in Missouri!